Andrei Ilyin. The Balalaika got married… A man married. He lived with his wife, at least somehow, for twenty years. And during those twenty years, twenty sons were born to him—and all of them, one after another, in September. The youngest was still nursing, while the eldest was already courting girls. And when the youngest started running after girls, the eldest already had a beard that grew down to his waist, and his own ten sons were drumming on the table with spoons.